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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Something to be Scared Of.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Freud's Oedipal Triangle model, people constantly seek fulfillment and self-realization through some other object, referred to as what?
(a) The Something.
(b) The Nothing.
(c) The Substitute.
(d) The Other.

2. What does Kristeva say children begin to develop, upsetting a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction?
(a) Biological needs.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Sexual desires.
(d) Fears.

3. Kristeva says a person relates to his or her world through what?
(a) Their background.
(b) Other people.
(c) Art.
(d) Language.

4. The author says the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle is what?
(a) Wrong.
(b) Flawed.
(c) Deficient.
(d) Perfect.

5. Freud saw his Oedipus complex as what?
(a) A metaphor.
(b) A literary device.
(c) A stage in childhood development.
(d) A necessary stage in natural selection.

Short Answer Questions

1. What state does Freud say a subject will be sent into when the repressed desire for one's mother's body breaks out of its repression?

2. Kristeva says the fear of what is truly horrifying?

3. In Chapter 1, Kristeva gives what kind of account of the abject?

4. Kristeva says a significant part of maturation for a boy is a distancing from what?

5. What does Kristeva says is the only way man can express the abject?

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